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...dominant Justice Party who would be more acceptable to the army. Either out of fear of an outright military takeover or, more likely, out of tacit agreement with the generals' move, most Turks accepted the change with equanimity. Even the extremist student group Dev-genc (an acronym for "revolutionary youth movement") joined in a declaration of support for any reforms that the military might have in mind...
State of Limbo. The kidnaping, like the recent bombings, is thought to have been the work of a Maoist guerrilla group known as Dev-genc (a Turkish acronym for "revolutionary youth movement"). Premier Süleyman Demirel has been reluctant to deal harshly with terrorists, lest he acquire the reputation for repression that brought down Premier Adnan Menderes and led to his hanging. Nevertheless, last week Demirel asked parliament to widen his government's powers to control the violence...
Already adorned with a suitable acronym, PAYE (Pay As You Earn) is an intriguing scheme for putting a college education in roughly the same class as a house mortgage. Yale and consortiums of medical and business schools are trying to set up small pilot versions of the idea. To convince banks to provide capital, the planners are asking foundations like Ford and Sloan to help guarantee any unforeseen losses. The result has stirred widespread controversy. The major issue is who should pay for the benefits of education-society or the students themselves...
...captain in Army intelligence himself and presently a graduate student at Columbia. Writing in the Washington Monthly (January and July, 1970), Pyle documents the collection, computerization, storage, and analysis of purely domestic intelligence by the U. S. Army Intelligence Command under the official designation of "CONUS," the Army's acronym for Continental U. S. Begun in 1965, and greatly expanded after the summer riots of 1967, the CONUS operation maintains files on millions of Americans who may have been involved, however remotely or passively, in domestic political activity, however lawful. The operation functions under no specific authority from the Executive...
Despite their fund of experience, workers handled the nerve gas with special care. A week before the gas arrived, all loading on the port's three wharves was stopped. When the gas trains were safely at dockside, the second phase-Operation Chase, a venerable Navy acronym for Cut Holes And Sink 'Em-was ready to start...